TripleX

9 Jan 2017

8 January 2017

Show 314

The Ballad of Jayne by L.A. Guns. From their 1989 album, Cocked and Loaded, their second. They were indeed from LA.

Baby I Love Your Way / Freebird by Will To Power. It spent one week at #1 on the Hot 100 chart dated December 3, 1988. They were American.

+The Gathering by Michelle Malone. 1994 track for which the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering was named. She’s a lesbian.

+Don’t Doubt It by Deirdre McCalla. Title track to her 1985 album, her second…12 years after the first. She is an out lesbian whose records are largely thru Olivia, that is women’s music.

Joy by The Sundays. Request. From their 1990 debut album, the final track from Reading, Writing & Arithmetic.

+Miriam’s Song by Debbie Friedman. Not our usual fare here at TripleX but Friedman was a lesbian who didn’t out herself during her career making Jewish religious music but made sure it appeared in her obituary when she passed away in the NY Times.

Rock On by Michael Damian. His 1989 cover of this 70s tune by David Essex. Damian is also a soap star…

Day Trip To Bangor (Didn’t We Have A Lovely Time) by Fiddler’s Dram. Entered the Australian chart on February 25, 1980. One hit wonder from the UK.

There Ain’t No Age For Rock ‘N’ Roll by The Veterans. Entered the Australian chart on May 12, 1980, peaking at number 6. They’re Belgian.

Que Sera Mi Vida by Gibson Brothers. 1980 one hit wonder for these French siblings. The title means What would be of my life and is sampled in the 1998 track Smash ‘n’ Grab’s “Drive Me Crazy”.

Precious To Me by Phil Seymour. 1981 moderate solo hit for this guy, who had been part of the Dwight Twilley Band. He died in 1993 at just 41.

Aussies that are new to me!

*The bits that move together by David Chesworth. From his 1981 album, Layer on Layer. I think it was his only one.

*Great Fool by The Apartments. Originally released onThe Evening Visits… And Stays for Years in 1985. They were a Brisbane indie band active only in 1978-9.

*I’m Going Crazy by Corpse Grinders. This copy is from the Melbourne bands compilation album, Asleep at the Wheel. The original was the b-side to I Eat Babies in 1984.

*Rockin Feet by Crackajacks. It’s from 1981 but can find any other details…

*Ten years on by The Dagoes. 7” single from 1981.

*VooDoo Doll by Tex Deadly and the Dum Dums. Brisbane punk band. This is a 1983 single release.

Only For Sheep by The Bureau. 1981 track from their only album. Featuring several former members of the first incarnation of Dexy’s Midnight Runners (including a pre-Style Council Mick Talbot).

Come on Eileen by Dexy’s Midnight Runners. Request.

I Won’t Let You Down by PhD. Minor hit in 1981.

Radio by The Members. 1982 one hit wonder. Punk was more or less a thing of the past, but this lot, who’d seen some UK chart action in 1979, came out of nowhere to hit the Australian top 5. Better late than never – and it may well have been never were it not for this hit since the band split the following year.

Words by Missing Persons. 1982 single. Like Berlin, just without the soundtrack megahit to their name, Missing Persons were a female-fronted new wave band from America. In the line-up were husband and wife Terry and Dale Bozzio, and future Duran Duran member Warren Cuccurullo.

I Could Be So Good For You by Dennis Waterman. 1980 tv theme to Minder, sung by the show’s star.

Zoom by Fat Larry’s Band. 1982 number 10 single. If you google them to see Fat Larry…look at the drummer, Larry James, not the singer, Darryl Grant. They were from Philly in the US.